The Icarus Didactics Group. A challenge of teaching method of Diplomatics, Palaeography and Medieval History

This paper aims at presenting the educational activities implementing the digital technologies led by an international working group of professors and scholars in History, Paleography and Diplomatics from several European universities. The group was born within the International Centre for Archival Research (ICARUS). The University of NaplesFederico II, ICARUS partner within the ENArC Project (European Network on Archival Cooperation) of the European Union' Culture Programme 2007- 2013, has been able to manage its didactic activities building a solid virtual learning environment. The teaching of Palaeography and Diplomatics has advanced taking advantage of the Web 2.0 through an environment known as MOM-CA, and a tool called EditMOM, developed by the University of Cologne for the management of medieval charters. The experience gained in the field of the Digital Didactics has given the University of Naples the role of coordinator of the educational activities of the ICARUS Didactics Group. This ensured the possibility to carry out training courses, workshops and seminars on the digitization and the use of Monasterium.Net portal and MOM-CA software and to oversee the start-up process for the creation and management of the digital archives of Italian and international archival institutions.